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Tribulus macrocarpus

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Family Zygophyllaceae

Taxonomy: Tribulus macrocarpus F.Muell. ex Benth.

Synonyms: 2 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Kallstroemia macrocarpa (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Engl. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Tribulus sp. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (17), Draper_2023 (2), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (2), RBGK_2014 (1), SAH_2022 (4), SAH_2023 (12), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 57 records in 14 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 20.5 mm (18-23 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 19.75 mm (15-26 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 18.5 mm (15-22 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): mericarp (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 6.88 mm (4-11 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 2.65 mm (1.5-3.8 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 0.65 cm (0.3-1 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); oblong (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023; SAH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); prostrate (4); spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): epizoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyyyyyyyn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 181.32 mg (181.32-181.32 mg) [sources: RBGK_2014]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_20231217Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
SAH_2023912S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
SAH_202244S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_202233Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200633A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Draper_202322J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
NTH_202322D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_222Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
RBGK_201411Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.